Releasing-hook.



0. G. PORTER.

RELEASING HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2a, 1908.

905,576. Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

lvwemtcz v per end of the body QTIS C. PORTER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

LE AGEING-TKO GK.

No. eoaarze.

Specification of Letters Patent.

lEatented Dec. 1, 1808..

Application filed May 26, 1908. Serial No. 35,167..

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTIS C. PORTER, of the city of Baltimore and the State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in ReleasingHooks, of which the folloi'ving is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved hook adapted to suspend an object such, for instance, as an anchor, and which is constructedto admit of the release of the object by manipulation of an element of the hook, after which the movable parts of the device revert to their original positions and the hook again becomesa supporting appliance, as will hereinafter fully appear.

in the description of the said invention which follows, reference-s made to the accompanying drawing forming apart hereof, and in which,

Figure 1 is a partly sectional side view of the improved releasing hook, and Fig. 2 a rear edge view of the sanie.

Referring now to the drawing, 1 and 2 are plates connected near their upper and lower ends by means of the studs 0 and b.

3 is a supporting appliance of any approved description which is attached to the Stud (1. i

is a hook the body of which is pivoted to the plates 1 and 2 by means of the stud b, and its curved end (Z projects beyond the front edge of the plates sudiciently to admit of the attachment of the hook to the object to be suspended and from Which it is to be ultimately detached.

7 is a latch pivoted at c to the plates 1 and 2, having a toe f adapted to engage the upof the hook and thereby prevent the release of the hook or its change in position as shown byits dotted delineation in l ig. 1.

Thelifting of the latch to efiect the release of-the hook is intended to be performed by hand through the medium of a cord 9 ,wise between a collar 2- thereon and the loose washer j, is coiled the compressing spring 12.

The upward movement of the latch is lim ited by the pin Z and its downward motion by the stop m. An extreme backward movement of the body of the hook is prevented by the stop m. I

It will be understood that the compressed spring 12 has a double function, that is to say, it yieldingly retains the latch in latching position, and the hook in the position indicated by its representation in full lines in Fig. 1.

To release the hook, the-cord 9 is drawn when the latchis raised and the oint of the hook fallsdue to the weight ot the object suspended thereby. Upon the detachment of the said object from the hook, it together with the latch automatically revert to their original positions provided the strain on the cord is relaxed, the latch again engaging the end of the body which is thereby locked.

I claim as my inventiom In a releasing hook, a pair of plates, a hook pivoted to and situated between the plates,'the said hook having a tail-piece, a latch adapted to engage-the hook and hold the same in holding position, combined with a spiral spring under compression, which unites the tail-piece of the hook with the latch, and thereby holds the said parts yield- .ingly together, substantially as specified.

I OTIS C. PORTER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS G. HULL, 'W T. HOWARD. 

